Latest Russell Simmons Stories
Interactive One's surging business division will provide editorial, product, and marketing responsibilities to one of the web's most exciting digital properties. NEW YORK, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest urban digital media company in the world, Interactive One, announces a sales, content, technology, product and marketing partnership with GlobalGrind.com and its founder Russell Simmons. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111109/PH03195LOGO ) The partnership...
Narrative to provide a blend of Strategy, Creative Innovation, Technology & Cultural Relevance to connect Publishers, Agencies, and Brands with The New American Mainstream Across Platforms NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Renowned entrepreneur and media mogul, Russell Simmons, along with former GlobalGrind.com Co-President, Tricia Clarke-Stone, today announced a partnership to form Narrative: The Culture Lab. Narrative is a digital marketing, entertainment and technology...
NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Legendary lyricist MC Lyte, together with Sunni Gyrl's newly appointed COO Lynn Richardson, launched the long anticipated Hip Hop Sisters Legends performance series with Yo Yo, Monie Love, Lady of Rage, MC Smooth and Lil Mama in Los Angeles, CA (www.hiphopsisters.info). The series included auditions for and announcement of the Next Top Female MC: Intelligenz; a real talk panel discussion: Who Are They, Where Are They, What Happened...
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Media, music, fashion, philanthropic and entertainment mogul, Russell Simmons, announced plans to create "greenROKS Ventures." The company is an incubator of youth entertainment properties and multi-media platforms and will launch with the first in a series of preteen-teen mobile games, greenROKS(TM) - "Mission G-ROK" in spring of 2013. Simmons says, "Entertainment is what resonates quickest with youth, which today means online and mobile...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip Hop Sisters Foundation CEO/Founder MC Lyte, advisory board members Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Damon A. Williams, HHSF President Lynn Richardson, and Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network co-founder Sabrina Thompson announced at Russell Simmons' New York City headquarters on September 6, 2012 a new $100,000 hip-hop scholarship partnership that will...
NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hip Hop Sisters Foundation (HHSF) CEO/Founder MC Lyte, Advisory Board Members Russell Simmons, Melanie Fiona, and Salt, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Damon A. Williams, and HHSF President Lynn Richardson are pleased to announce a new $100,000 hip-hop scholarship partnership that will enable one college-bound student to pursue a bachelor's degree from one of the world's top academic...
CINCINNATI, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez is teaming with prepaid industry pioneer and philanthropist Russell Simmons to give more people access to financial freedom with the DYNASTY Prepaid Visa RushCard. The DYNASTY card will offer members all of the same great features and benefits they have grown accustomed to including prescription drug discount cards, discount health plans, online money tools, and Card-to-Card Transfers. The DYNASTY card is the...
NEW YORK, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tracy Morgan opens up to Russell Simmons on hip-pop news website, GlobalGrind, regarding the recent controversy surrounding his anti-gay comments. Morgan, who tells Russell to count him in at the next gay marriage protest, apologizes for the anti-gay remarks stating he is most sad about the comments he made about kids and bullying. "I am deeply sorry for the comments I made. What I am most sad about is the comments I made about kids and...
CINCINNATI, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- RushCard introduced today a new online community that allows prepaid card members and others to gain information about ways to manage their personal finances from experts and other community members. The online community at flexyourfreedom.com will provide regular information to help people "get their money right" and assert their freedom from costly bank fees. Flexyourfreedom.com includes news about saving money, jobs and more; a financial forum...
NEW YORK, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Community and religious leaders, local officials and celebrities will join together to protest the targeting of American Muslims and Arabs in upcoming congressional hearings in support of equitable civil rights for the Today, I Am a Muslim, Too, rally. The physical event will take place on Sunday, March 6th in Times Square (42nd Street and 7th Avenue), New York City. Throughout the weekend, a virtual rally will commence online through social media...
